R E M A I N S

R E M A I N S

by Mark Murphy and John Bennett

R E M A I N S sees the work of long-time friends, Mark Murphy and John Bennett, come together in a visual conversation about the possibilities, skill and joy of producing analog collage.

Magazines are plundered, encyclopedias trawled, photographs found, corners sliced, mountainscapes reserved, body parts severed, envelopes flattened, eyes erased, floor boards salvaged, found paper stockpiled, colours combined, offcuts trimmed, butted up and overlapped. What remains is a re-imagining of other people’s cast offs through the rearrangement of vestiges of other people’s pasts.

Things are discarded, things are found, parts are removed, yet elements remain.

About the artists:
Mark Murphy draws on discarded printed material from the last 60 years to create hand cut graphic compositions, at times figurative, they explore juxtaposition of scale and context, sometimes surreal and often playful. Negative space plays an important part in many of these works, what is not there as important as what remains.

Working both in paper and more recently with found wood, Bristol-based artist John Bennett explores contrasts of color and texture–in paper on the page, but also as 3D objects, repeating angles, changing relationships with fluctuating widths and heights. The resulting compositions feel fresh while nodding to modernist abstraction.

Text adapted from the publisher’s press materials

ABOUT THE BOOK
R E M A I N S
by Mark Murphy and John Bennett
20 pages; limited edition
6″x4.5″
£5
Self-published; 2016

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